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 Excellent Reference Manual for the Beginner.... August 18, 2009
Learning All The Time (USA)
This book is geared towards photographers new to Photoshop who want to start making images look better immediately. This is a step-by-step tutorial for specific improvements, such as "Eliminating Red Eye", or a 15 second fix for "Under or Overexposed Photos". It is NOT a detailed explanation of Photoshop and what everything on all of the menus does. For that, I recommend the Photoshop CS4 Missing Manual book by Lesa Snider King and published by O'Reilly. That almost 800 page book is incredibly comprehensive, but I think that book is better approached after you have some familiarity with Photoshop.
Anyway, the Kelby book has clear and concise step by step directions, and it's illustrated with color photographs and screen captures so you can see how a photograph changes with an effect, and exactly where you click to change a layer's mode to "Screen", for example.
This is not a comprehensive book by any means, but if you practice the techniques you will learn how to significantly improve photographs with a very small investment of time -- which is quite fun and very motivating!
I was a little disappointed that a third of the book is about Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw, which I don't use, but the Photoshop content was still worth the price of the book.
Also, I recommend Kelby's website for its photoshop tutorials. There is a monthly subscription fee, but when you master this book and are ready for more, there is plenty on that site to keep you busy.
 Not for Photoshop beginners August 12, 2009
Walter A Unterbrink (Pittsburgh)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this book after purchasing Photoshop CS4 Extended. Since I am relatively new to Photoshop CS4 I was looking for a book that teaches Photoshop CS4 from the ground up. If that is what you are looking for, this is not the book for you. This book seems to be geared towards people that use Photoshop and have upgraded to CS4. Also, if you use Photoshop Lightroom 2 then you will find that half of this book covers CS4 functions that you probably won't use.
I am not saying that this is a bad book; I just want to call attention to the fact that this is not a Photoshop beginners book. By the way, I do plan on keeping this book but I will be looking for something that is geared more towards Photoshop beginners.
P.S. This product was given three stars just to try and draw attention to the fact that this is not a beginners book. I would consider purchasing a Kelby book for CS5 when it is released.
very useful August 7, 2009
rj
I only worked with two chapters so far. But they for sure are great. Simple, easy to understand, still detailed and very very useful. If I change my opinion reading the other chapters, I will update this review...
 Missing 30 pages July 22, 2009
M. Schueler (San Jose, CA)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I received this book in a timely fashion, the content is excellent.. except, I'm missing pages 96 - 129. This would get a 5 star review otherwise...
Poor quality control - over 30 pages missing! July 15, 2009
Deus Ex
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
OK book - not as good as some of his earlier books - same stuff regurgitated. Disappointing that my copy has pages 97-128 missing! I hope Amazon will replace it at no cost to me - pretty cut about it.
There are better books out there.
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